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{As usual, Strong Bad is in front of his Lappy, checking his email. Judging from the view of the room we can see around the Lappy, however, he does not seem to be at his desk, as he usually would be.}

STRONG BAD: A lot of ladies and a lot of girls... some healthy ladies and some healthy girls!

subject: besides..

Dear Strongbad,
Do you do anything besides checking emails?

Sincerely, Hunter

STRONG BAD:{typing, getting angry in the process} Waudju- gighi- ikuh... What do you mean do I do anything else besides checking emails? {ends the sentence with a period} 'Course I freakin' do! I do everything! Always! {clears the screen} Nature walks, Meet N' Greets, Bus Chucker Club, The League of Me and The Cheat Ice Cream Socials. Shut up! I even have a part-part-part-part-very part-time job, to which I am currently 15 minutes late.

{Cut to the lower area of Marzipan's kitchen. Strong Bad has apparently been checking this email under Marzipan's kitchen table. Homestar walks in, and is holding a tennis ball.}

{Strong Bad looks around in a panicked way.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: This is perfect! Just perfect! I couldn't be happier with my new invention! I'll call it...the Super Question Machine!!

STRONG BAD:{whispering} I gotta try and sneak out of here without Homestar noticing me.

{Homestar sets his tennis ball down on the table.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah, you do.

STRONG BAD: Gonna need a diversion of some kind...

{The Cheat walks in, humming to himself, wearing a top hat entitled "Tito" and a bow tie, and holding a cane. Homestar turns around to look at him. The camera pans left. The Cheat begins doing a dance.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Oh, wow! What a great new invention!

{Strong Bad crawls out from under the table, and gives The Cheat the thumbs up.}

STRONG BAD: Nice work, The Cheat!

{He proceeds to crawl away, while The Cheat's still humming.}

{Cut to Bubs' empty concession stand.}

STRONG BAD:{quietly while peeking out from behind the black} Perfect! Bubs must be passed out on the floor again.

{Bubs pops up from under the counter. Strong Bad lets out a short yell.}

BUBS: Aha!

STRONG BAD:{Yells, then stutters a little.}

BUBS: Late again, Strong Bad. I'm not running a country club, you know.

STRONG BAD:{Quickly} But Mr. Bubs, I was just—

BUBS:{Interrupts} Wastin' time with that email show of yours again. That mess'll never get you anywhere!

STRONG BAD: Yes it will! You'll see! I'm gonna be big one day. I'm gonna be a famous email checker!

BUBS: And I'm gonna be two times two. Now put on your uniform and {raising his left arm midway for directions} get to work!

STRONG BAD: You're gonna be what?

{The screen fades out and resumes to Strong Bad wearing a combination of a sad clown and a hotdog costume in front of Bubs' stand. Strong Bad is holding a paper, and a stack of papers sits next to him.}

STRONG BAD: That's right! Come on down to Bubs' and get you a free cup of ice with purchase of deluxe cup of ice of equal or lesser value.

BUBS: No, no. Work it, son, work it!

{Strong Bad begins dancing and humming.}

BUBS: That's it, that's it! Look out for Number 1!

{Coach Z walks in.}

COACH Z: Hey, it's the hot dog clown! What fun!

{Pom Pom's silhouette merges in.}

COACH Z: Pom Pom, take a picture of me with the hot dog clown. It'll be classic!

{Pom Pom bubbles, and takes out a camera. A huge flash is seen, and a camera shutter sound is heard. Coach Z falls over, leaning on Strong Bad.}

{The camera zooms in to Bubs.}

BUBS:{waves his arms up and down constantly} Pictures with the tragic clown dog ain't free! {points his right arm at Pom Pom and Coach Z} Fifty bucks! {back to waving arms}Sixty bucks! {back to pointing right arm} Get back here and let me confiscate yo film!

{The camera zooms back out to the four of them.}

COACH Z:{running} Chorce, forsh! {He and Pom Pom run off screen. Bubs has his arms down and relaxed.}

STRONG BAD: It's a great day at Bubs' Concession Stand! Sign up now for giving us money!

BUBS: Now isn't this better than sitting at your desk answerin' emails?

STRONG BAD: Actually, I was sitting under a kitchen table this week and...uh oh! The Lappy's probably almost out of juice! I gotta get back and end this email! Uhh.. say Bubs, I'm gonna need now off. Is that cool?

BUBS: Is Strong Sad cool?

STRONG BAD: Oh, come on!

BUBS: You know all my policies! I'm not running a country club, you know.

STRONG BAD: Okay, then, I quit.

BUBS: Fine! But don't even think about swiping that costume!

STRONG BAD: You made me buy this costume, remember?

BUBS: Oh. Right. Well then pleasure doing business wit' ya.

{Strong Bad runs off in the costume.}

{We cut back to the kitchen, where The Cheat has fallen over, still humming, and Homestar is standing over him. Strong Bad, now without costume, crawls back in.}

HOMESTAR RUNNER: This is the most amazing undersea epic ever filmed.

STRONG BAD:{typing} See, Hunter? I got all types of stuff going on. I've got so many facets, you don't even know what facets are. I'm like a hundredaire socialite out on the sce—

{The Lappy powers down.}

STRONG BAD: Oh great. The battery ran out. I gotta figure out a way to end this email.

HOMESTAR RUNNER: Yeah you do.

{Cut to Mrs. Bennedetto. Strong Bad slaps a paper on it with some text and a picture of him grinning and showing off a beefy arm on it.}

GET YOU A FREE CUP OF
ICE WITH PURCHASE OF
DELUXE CUP OF ICE OF
EQUAL OR LESSER VALUE.
BUBS' CONCESSION STAND

The clock on Mrs. Bennedetto is stuck on 9:48.

This email is the first to show the back of the Lappy clearly. (It was obscured by Strong Bad's arm in animal.)

In the picture of himself that Strong Bad puts on Mrs. Bennedetto at the end of the email, his left hand does not have a boxing glove on it and you can see three fingers. This is the first time we have seen Strong Bad's fingers or hand without the boxing gloves on. Also, his mouth has teeth, instead of just a gap in his mask.

This is the only email where you manually have to make The Paper come down at the end of it.

This is the second time Bubs criticized Strong Bad about his "email show". The first time was in the email the process.

The only way Bubs will have to honor his offer of "a free cup of ice with purchase of a deluxe cup of ice of equal or lesser value" is if he gives a free deluxe cup with the purchase of another deluxe cup, since a deluxe version of an item would be of greater value than the normal version.

When Strong Bad arrives late to work, he grabs the frame of the cartoon, yet another example of a fourth wall break.

Hunter's question was effectively answered just 10 emails earlier, in other days.

According to its introduction in animal, the Lappy has 5 minutes of battery life. This email is only 3:18 long, indicating that Strong Bad had likely powered his Lappy on before the email began, although the email does consist of several non-contiguous shots.

If Mrs. Bennedetto's clock is correct, Strong Bad had to be at work by 9:30 AM.

The confused sounds Strong Bad makes at the beginning of the cartoon are almost identical to the ones he utters near the end of Everybody to the Limit.

When Strong Bad says, "I've got so many facets, you don't even know what facets are," he is referring to his description of Senor Cardgage in the email kind of cool.

The sound the Lappy makes when shutting down is the same sound from gimmicks (when the Tandy's display goes blank), caffeine (when Strong Sad snaps out of being caffeinated), and dangeresque 3 (when Strong Bad changed the signature (john newell, on) to "john newell, off").

The cup of ice is first referenced in no loafing, as part of Bubs' Thirty Cent Lunch Special.

When Strong Bad sings "I'm like a hundredaire socialite out on the sce—", it is in the same tune as the first Lappy scroll buttons song ("Scroll buttons and the Lappy together at last...").

Homestar doesn't demonstrate how his Super Question Machine works (which is just a tennis ball), but it could be a reference to the Magic 8-ball.

It may also be a reference to the handheld version of the 20q, a device that plays twenty questions and is about the size of a tennis ball.

The pamphlet reading "Theater" in the Easter egg is a reference to the ubiquitous Playbill in Broadway shows.

The name "Mr. Legarm" is probably a reference to the old saying of "... will cost you an arm and a leg", since Bubs is known to charge more for something than it is worth (such as when he charges $10 for severe pummelings in pom pom).

Homestar's assessment of The Cheat's performance is similar to the tagline of the film The Neptune Factor: "The most fantastic undersea odyssey ever filmed."